00:00The Chibi News Daily Reflection
00:04Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, the vicar of Utterbridge Parish Church.
00:11So many of the stories we love culminate in a great battle or confrontation,
00:17one at great cost, allowing the hero and the people they've saved
00:22to enjoy peace and rest with those they love.
00:26Victory was never the goal itself, the goal was what came after,
00:32peace with the ones we love.
00:34Such a precious thing, it made the struggle, the fight, the cost, worth it in the end.
00:41We humans had been telling ourselves versions of that story for as long as we know.
00:47It touches something in us that's very deep and very old.
00:51Like an early childhood memory we can never quite remember, but never quite forget.
00:58Some may call it sentimentality or wishful thinking,
01:02but might it be the echoes of a true story to which we've just forgotten the names of the characters?
01:08The Christian claim is that it is a true story, the true story in which we all live,
01:17and that at its heart is not a myth, but a man, Jesus Christ.
01:22And that in his death and resurrection, he won the great battle for us at the cost of his life,
01:29so that peace, Christians believe, is now available to all who trust in him.
01:36The Bible ends beautifully with the promise that just as Jesus left, he'll one day return,
01:42and it'll be like a wedding between Jesus and his people who he loves.
01:47It ends like this,
01:48Might this be the true story of struggle, loss, victory, and rest?
02:08Not just the story we're in, but the one in which we're invited to find our place.
02:18The Bible ends
02:21The Bible ends
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